Chertoff-Lobbyists and Airport Scanners

A few people have queried, paraphrasing here, 'wtf is this shit you speak of, politicians making money off selling security products which do not improve our safety?'. Hap tip to Rene for the short answer. Here:

http://www.politicolnews.com/chertoff-lobbyists-and-airport-scanners/

The former Head of Homeland Security had an ulterior motive in promoting the Airport security scanning machines that people are objecting to so strongly. The company that makes the machine is now one of Chertoff's clients but in the past under the Bush administration Chernoff was selling these machines to the government and to the Obama administration and they bought it hook, line and sinker.